President Emmanuel Macron asserted Sunday that Paris had convinced Donald Trump to stay engaged in Syria "for the long-term", adding that French air strikes did not amount to a declaration of war against the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
A day after France joined the United States and Britain in launching unprecedented strikes against regime targets, Macron insisted the intervention was legitimate and urged international powers to now push for a diplomatic solution to the brutal seven-year war.
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If bombing a nation using false evidence as a pretext is not "a declaration of war", then what is?
At the very least, it is a violation of international law and the UN Charter, and a potential war crime. And Trump's acceptance of Macron's argument is a rejection of the will of the US electorate.
I think Michael Krieger's observations are particularly appropriate to this situation:
We don't have a real media.
We don't have Constitutional government.
We have elite lawlessness.
What are we supposed to do now as citizens?
Source - https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2018/04/14/liberty-links-4-14-18-world-war-3/
What indeed.
Pat Buchanan makes similar observations:
ReplyDeletehttp://buchanan.org/blog/trump-prisoner-of-the-war-party-129140